Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since their victory a month ago, the new rulers of South Viet Nam have treated the foreign press with a blend of low-key exhortation and surprisingly Western-style savvy. The Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) has required the estimated 127 journalists in Saigon, including 27 from Communist nations, to register and pick up credentials. Otherwise it has allowed them and their Vietnamese stringers to roam freely around the city, now unofficially designated as Ho Chi Minn City. Carefully attentive, the P.R.G. has permitted Western reporters, including the eight Americans on hand for United Press International, the Associated Press...
...which seem quite unnecessary to him. "If you experiment to cure a specific disease, say work with cows in order to cure cow diseases. I would accept it. But many of them seem just to advance knowledge in a general way." Adams recognizes that "general knowledge" and "eventual cures" blend together in a large gray area; but he doesn't feel an obligation to prepare a blueprint or say what ought to be done, just that "what is going on is damn well not good enough for me." He says he doesn't know any better than anyone else where...
...Sounds for Wind Quintet' in ten movements has high theoretic ambitions but in performance is tedious. Coleman states that it is "a combination of diatonic and atonal intervals that creates a form out of a sound and a sound out of a form in which the five instruments blend, not by coming together, but by moving in opposing directions." The theory sounds impressive but after about five minutes (and the piece lasts 25) the lack of rhythmic color or dynamic change sterilizes the composition's impact and renders it lifeless. Later in the concernt however, Coleman reaches great artictic heights...
...death of principal Architect-Director John Cranko in 1973. American Choreographer Glen Tetley, a former A.B.T. and Martha Graham dancer, was the company's unanimous choice to succeed Cranko. But whereas Cranko's story ballets and acrobatic choreography strengthened the theatrical aspect of Stuttgart, Tetley's blend of classical and modern dance vocabulary may add more plasticity of movement. His Voluntaries and his new Daphnis and Chloé will be given U.S. premieres during May-July visits to New York's Metropolitan Opera and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center...
...both phases seemed equally mad. With their inbred fatalism and stoicism, the 3 million residents of the old French colonial capital fought, often in vain, against a rising sense of terror. The result, as TIME Correspondents Roy Rowan and William McWhirter cabled from Saigon, was a strange blend of serenity and fear in the aloof and careless city that had so largely been spared the shock...